November 24, 2011
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Picking a Blu-ray player is no easy matter. (Credit: Sarah Tew/CNET) If you’re thinking of picking up a Blu-ray player this holiday season, the buying process can be overwhelming.
My educated hunch about DVD box sets of old TV shows that are given as Christmas presents is this: Most are never even opened and watched by the recipient. It’s strange what we will and won’t do when it comes to television
It’s Thanksgiving this week, a time to reflect on the people and things for which we’re grateful. Since I love movies, I thought it would be a good time to choose five for which I’m thankful. These are the cinematic equivalent of comfort food, ones I can watch over and over again, and always rely on to make me laugh, lift me up or provide an escape.
This week’s top DVD picks range from a close encounter by director J.J. Abrams to a sequel for one of the best animated movies of all time.
In the first fruit from a reported deal with Disney, YouTube began offering movies from the storied content producer for rent Wednesday.
Today, Blu-ray players are as cheap as DVD players and provide online entertainment and apps, not to mention putting the 3-D in 3-D TVs. If you haven’t upgraded yet, it’s probably time.
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The late leader of the Shembe Church spoke before his death of someone plotting to unseat him, the Durban High Court has heard. “My brother has agreed to unseat me and he is working with some people from the Shembe Church,†Vimbeni Shembe said in a DVD submitted as evidence in court on Tuesday.
In this week’s new movies, Kermit, Fozzie and Miss Piggy return to the big screen, and Martin Scorsese directs a family-friendly story of a young orphan in 1930s Paris who lives in a train station. Arthur Christmas (PG) “A worthy addition to the Christmas-movie canon.